Editing Parian (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Parian's power gives her a fine control over lightweight materials. If she attempts to control anything heavier than a half-pound, her telekinesis falls apart. It becomes more unstable when she attempts to move large objects until it expands and dissipates over an area in an attempt to extend control to a number of tiny, lightweight objects.

Parian discovered that she could contain her power and keep it from dissipating. Porous materials worked best for this method as her power soaks into them and allows her to move the fabric rather than just the material. The gaps within the material also allow her to feed power into the 'shell' without it building to critical mass and collapsing.<ref name="I21.y">[[Interlude 21.y]]</ref><ref name="8.5 c1">‘Master’ refers to the ability to control others or (in the case of specialized cases of other powers, like Tinkers) to create minons… Taylor, Parian, Crusader, Heartbreaker and Nilbog all fit this classification. Bitch is kind of an outlying case in this category because she doesn’t have absolute control or loyalty from those she creates. She has to train them – of the sixteen or so dogs she had at the one shelter, she only considered eight well trained enough to obey her and come with her in this chapter, and even then she was relying on Brutus and Judas to sort of herd them and keep them in line. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/extermination-8-5/#comment-59978 Comment] on [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref>

[[Wildbow]] has mentioned that Parian has a "true use" of her power, which is effective against [[Behemoth]], although it was not revealed in Worm.<ref name="SB1">In her earlier incarnations, when I wrote her as a protagonist during some snippets, it was (most often) during a Behemoth attack. Flechette was present, as a rule, and the attraction was sort of reversed, with a bit of hero worship on Parian's part, that ran a bit deeper.<br/><br/>Parian against Behemoth sounds like a joke, but you see, there's a true use of Parian's power that doesn't show up in Worm. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15860656/ Post by Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref>

The true use of Parian's power was later revealed to be working with the skin of dead humans. She can flay corpses and infuse their skins with her ability, manipulating it like she would any other material, but with better control and more strength. She can also use hair and tendons from corpses as thread. By sewing the skins of numerous dead together, she can create a giant construct that is capable of taking an attack from a [[Titan]].<ref>And I saw her approach the rows of bodies.  People covered in sheets.  Some with people standing by them.  She took the sheets, drawing out threads and weaving them together.<br/><br/>Then, with telekinetic control over fine blades, she began cutting into bodies.  Some had been crushed, some had been cut, others afflicted with gas, their skin ulcerous.<br/><br/>“Oh my god,” I heard Foil.  She pressed her hands over her mouth.<br/><br/>Flayed skin sewn to skin, like Parian had used cloth before.  Orifices sealed shut.  People became parts of a wider canvas.  That canvas, with many dead, began to take form.<br/><br/>The sheets became one doll.  Like Parian’s bigger creations, it reached a height of about twenty feet.  I’d seen smaller at the fight against Leviathan.  This one remained featureless.  Nothing spared for decoration.  Bloody, because the sheets had covered people that had been torn apart.<br/><br/>When thread ran out, she began using tendons from the body, or hair.<br/><br/>Skin stretched like most cloth didn’t.  But that wasn’t why it was so much bigger, or why it seemed more flexible than the cloth creations, less clumsy.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>The thing took form.  It wasn’t Titan sized, but it was a bit bigger than the Gibborim Knight had been.  Skin stretched translucent thin.  It was mostly human shaped, streaked with the blood that had leaked out in the flaying.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>Skadi plunged her blade straight down at Parian.<br/><br/>The skin-thing struck out, protecting its controller, wrestling Skadi to the ground.<br/><br/>She cut, and the telekinesis that saturated the skin seemed to protect it from the cut. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/03/radiation-18-6/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.6]]</ref>